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Abstract:The Department of Energy (DOE) has been authorized under the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA), and its 1987 amendment to develcp a…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Calorimetry is an important technique for use in the nondestructive measurement and assay of plutonium bearing materials. The technique has…
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Abstract:A Personnel and Material Tracking System ( P M T S ) d e m o n s t r a t e d at Argonne National Laboratories-West (ANL-W) in 1987 has…
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Abstract:Ontario Hydro generates more than 67 million MWe-h/year from its 16 nuclear reactors. These reactors are all of the CANDU type and make use…
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Abstract:Dynamic analyses of radioactive material packagings require accurate three-dimensional models of impact and puncture events. PRONTO 30, a…
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Abstract:Japan gives a good deal of encouragement to development of a fast breeder reactor (which is considered as the most likely candidate for…
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Abstract:High waste storage and disposal costs prevailing in Europe are an incentive to decontaminate thoroughly redundant components for metal…
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Abstract:In 1981, a national Agency in charge of the management of radioactive waste am fissile materials called NIRAS/ ONDRAF has been established…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The Department of Energy Central Training Academy has developed a model program, Tactical Assessment Deployment and Decision Making, (TADD…
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Abstract:It is very important to use plutonium for light water reactor (LWR) fuels from the standpoint of one of the effective use of recovered…
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Abstract:Rigid, closed-cell, polyurethane foam is used in impact limiters in nuclear waste transport containers. During a hypothetical nuclear waste…
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Abstract:Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) recently developed a PIE (Post Irradiation Examination)-fuel shipping cask (MSF- I ). The objective…
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Abstract:Since that goods are transported, their chocking and stowing is very often done by improvisation, successfully or disastrously. When the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:For the past twenty years, the Oak Ridge Y-12* Plant has used tamper-indicating devices (TIDs) for material control purposes. Department of…
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Abstract:The Savannah River Site (SRS) has completed an experimental evaluation of the application of an active well (neutron) coincidence counter (…
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Abstract:Japanese first prototype FBR \"MONJU\" is being constructed by Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC). After a few…
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Abstract:General Atomics (GA), has a contract with DOE's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) to develop two legal weight truck…
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Abstract:The Los Alamos Special Isotope Separation Facility produces special plutonium isotopes and converts plutonium scrap by using the molecular…
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Abstract:This paper reports on the development of a new generation of neutron multiplicity counters for assaying impure plutonium. The new counters…
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Abstract:After the planned trial voyage (4700 MWD/MTU) of the nuclear ship MUTSU in 1990, her spent fuel assemblies, initially made of two types of…